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"As you probably know since you're reading this thread, often such inquiries are confidential and the recipients may be prohibited from disclosing their existen
by rsync 4y ago
"As you probably know since you're reading this thread, often such inquiries are confidential and the recipients may be prohibited from disclosing their existence."
Yes, that is exactly the kind of thing you're supposed to be taking a stand against and resisting.
In fact, warrants like this are not "often" confidential - that is an aberration and an abomination - and a relatively recent one.
We - all of us - should publicly oppose these measures and work to resist them.
EDIT:
I think I have misunderstood - the HN title is incorrect/misleading.
Storj did not remove their warrant canary, they failed to update it.
Interesting ...
- satvikpendem 4y agoI don't understand how this kind of resistance is supposed to work practically. Should they just go to jail then?
- sschueller 4y agoYes, if you actually believe in freedom and your countries core values.
- satvikpendem 4y agoThat's great for those who want to do so, however I'm not going to spend my limited time in this universe dealing with political squabbles.
- Shish2k 4y agoOk, so the hosting company’s management goes to jail, the service goes down, the general public are aware “a warrant was served”, the person hosting illegal content goes to host it somewhere else… who has benefitted from this situation, and how?
- AstralStorm 4y agoThe customers who value their data not getting intercepted or modified by the state. (Including corrupt actors therein.)
- chii 4y agoThis hypothetical customer has not paid enough money for the people/owners of the storage company to go to jail for. And doing this does not change the law, so nothing changes.
- dvzk 4y agoI'm usually a strong advocate for holding citizens of democratic nations morally accountable for their nation's actions. Asking software authors to martyr and incriminate themselves on behalf of a minuscule fraction of the public, even though they are part of the few doing anything at all, seems exactly backwards. Law reform should start and end with the electorate and their chosen representatives.
- cutemonster 4y agoAs if you were prepared to go to jail for that? I think there are more well spent time ways to improve freedom etc around the world and where you live
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